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Marie Howe

Marie Howe

Marie Howe

Marie Howe was born in 1950 in Rochester, New York. She worked as a newspaper reporter and teacher before receiving her MFA from Columbia University in 1983. Howe is the author of New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2024), winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Magdalene (W. W. Norton, 2017), which was long-listed for the National Book Award; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W. W. Norton, 2009), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; What the Living Do (W. W. Norton, 1998); and The Good Thief (Persea Books, 1988), which was selected for the 1987 National Poetry Series. (Source)

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Poems by Marie Howe

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Hurry by Marie Howe

August 29, 2025
“Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? / To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?” — Marie Howe
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Hurry by Marie Howe

October 15, 2022
"Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? / To mine?" — Marie Howe
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The Spell by Marie Howe

October 11, 2011
“Tell me the whole thing Mom.” — Marie Howe
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After the Movie by Marie Howe

April 2, 2011
"Love is not a feeling, I say." — Marie Howe
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The Boy by Marie Howe

January 9, 2011
“What happened in our house taught my brothers how to leave...” — Marie Howe
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My Dead Friends by Marie Howe

October 30, 2005
"Who if I cried out would hear me?" — Marie Howe